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Keep the original words

I was reading an incredible BBC news article about a boy who got lost at the tender age of five. He got adopted, and moved to Austrila were he later used technology to find his old home, and eventually his own family. If you have five minutes, give it the BBC News article a read.

Technology opens the world

It seems that as the IT sector grows, so can people’s lives! That includes those who work within the sector, to those who use it – the user of technology. It also seems that this article (and other content on the web) connects people to other people and places. Who knows if this will be transformed in to a film, as the BBC journalist suggests at the end of the article.

News story, twisted on purpose

Yesterday, I was reading a BBC news story online, and I got thinking around it’s content. So, briefly, what was the news story about so you can get what I meant about thinking around the content?

the internet group Anonymous attacked (500) websites in China

most of the web sites were government based, or related agencies

Anonymous used their message to promote Chinese citizens to rebel against the ‘controlled’ society

political & social view

For some people reading this post (and linked article) the thoughts of cyber war might be running through their mind. For others, the thoughts of how Chinese citizens are ‘locked away’ from the ‘real world’ might come to the fore. For others, the Great China Firewall, or for the techie people the thoughts of a well controlled (DoS) attack was successfully accomplished in the ‘tailored,’ often unknown and limited, infrastructure of the Chinese internet was avoided and bypassed by effective use of computer skills.

self and spotlight

Whatever your view is on the actual content of this article, doesn’t really matter for this post. Why? Well, I want to tease out one keyword from the article – anonymous! Not the actual group Anonymous, but what the word actually means.

being different

I am in no way praising Anonymous for their activities, or trying to establish why they have done something and how it might be the right or wrong thing to do. Who am I to judge and condemn? But what I am saying is that, us human’s need to realise that being out of the limelight, often working away anonymously isn’t always a bad thing.

Text: "dare to be different"

Perhaps not being at the forefront of a crowded room isn’t always a good thing. Perhaps not letting people know what great work you are doing is always a good thing. Perhaps being anonymous allows us to be content with ourselves rather than that of others – perhaps, this is a really good thing.

the power of you

So the power of producing good quality work and combining it with less self praise is very powerful. In an earlier post on education, I pointed out that we need to reward ourselves, but I also pointed out that some people reward themeselves too much. But hopefully this post shows that you can do things without being fully recognised. That is, Anonymous (perhaps not all good) do work without recognising individuals, yet they make the headlines, they make a huge impact on our lives by using ICT’s.

So next time…

…you produce a good quality report, don’t run around too much saying what you did. The cover sheet with your name is enough

…you complete a presentation successfully, sit down and reflect to yourself, how well it went without ranting about your wonderful qualities

Why? Well self praise is no praise. And if you deserve praise you will get it eventually. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for allowing me to share what might seem to be a wacky thought behind an important piece of news.

Post 73, over and out

Here’s an interesting video about the future of technology. One piece of technology is working on changing the TV channel by thinking about it, will it really work and have a place in our living rooms? Who knows

Some argue that the number 13 is unlucky, perhaps this is not the case for this post. According to a recent BBC News article a developer asked the Russian government to give £1m to go towards a new operating system: ReactOS. It claims to be compatable with all Microsoft’s software, and for (us) it’s free, open source!

Could we have the Operating System of the future? Will Microsoft have a bigger rival than Apple in its own territory, PC ReactOS?